Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] which [verb] the first " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is exactly this kind of function which gives the first three examples their odd effect . |
| 2 | Yet the appeal of crusading was , if anything , even stronger to those aristocratic houses just below the level of the princely : it was , after all , the house of Boulogne which produced the first two rulers of Jerusalem . |
| 3 | ‘ I was always afraid of things which worked the first time . ’ |
| 4 | It is the profusion of flowers which make the first impression on visitors although fruit and vegetables are grown as well . |
| 5 | The pattern of pitch which accompanies the first clause or group of words will be recognised by an English listener as in some way complete and it will hold it together as a separate unit and separate it from the following clause , which will also be held together by intonation . |
| 6 | In April 1990 reforms came into operation which addressed the first but not the second elements of concern outlined above . |
| 7 | Other Scout and Guide movements were established at Leicester , Newcastle-upon-Tyne , Liverpool , Coventry and in Glasgow which produced the first deaf Senior Scout in George Scott who took part in a Grand Rally of Senior Scouts at Ibrox Park which was inspected by the Duke of Windsor in 1931 . |
| 8 | Owers showed no signs of rustiness , often winning the ball in midfield and supplying the deadly pass to Goodman which produced the first goal . |
| 9 | Emboldened by Carters support , the Shah ordered the publications of the scurrilous attack on Khomeini which precipitated the first of the riots against him and , within a year , had led to his fall , by early 1979 , after what he saw as US failure to support him , and as he now looked for a refuge form Morocco he was less certain . |
| 10 | Furber was also one of the Society of Gardeners led by Miller which published the first part of its Catalogus Plantarum in 1730 , but by then he had issued two catalogues of his own , one of English and foreign trees , the other of ‘ the Best and Choicest Fruit Trees ’ ( both in 1727 ) . |